MS in Computer Engineering with specialization in Computer Networks, seeking career related experience as a network engineer/network administrator/technical support engineer. I am a CCNA, pursuing CCNP, and over two years of academic experience in computer networks, including network design, network performance modeling, network configuration / troubleshooting, and network programming.

PROJECTS: Multi-Protocol Label Switching Applications over an Enterprise IP/MPLS Backbone Tools: Dynamips (GNS3), Cisco IOS Implemented MPLS applications that included MPLS Traffic Engineering, Layer 3 VPNs, Any Transport over MPLS (Layer 2 VPNs), and MPLS QoS over a simulated enterprise IP/MPLS backbone. OSPF and EIGRP were the IGPs, BGP was the EGP, and LDP/RSVP-TE were used for signaling/label distribution.

Simulation-based Analysis of Voice and QoS using Traffic Engineering over MPLS Tool: OPNET Modeler Designed discrete event simulations for an IP and an MPLS network model with voice traffic, and compared performance characteristics like throughput, delay, and jitter. Designed discrete event simulations for studying and comparing the variation in TCP traffic throughput with an increase in UDP traffic of a network model with only IP enabled, with MPLS TE enabled, and with MPLS TE and QoS enabled.

Path Control and Policy-based Routing using Border Gateway Protocol Tools: Dynamips (GNS3), Cisco IOS Designed and implemented BGP routing policies to influence the inbound/outbound traffic between two Autonomous Systems, and three ISPs. OSPF was the IGP. Route filtering and attribute manipulation was achieved using BGP attributes (Local Preference, AS Path Prepend, Multi-Exit Discriminator etc.), route-maps, and prefix-lists/access-lists.

Network Modeling and Analysis using Queueing Theory Tool: MATLAB Implemented event driven simulations of M/M/1 and M/M/1/N queuing models, queuing model with feedback; Modeled and simulated an MPLS TE LSP as used in backbone networks and determined performance characteristics like throughput, network-wide delay etc. for desired utilizations. A comparison of analytical results – network of queues, and simulations was done for verification purposes.

IP Routing using Cisco 3600 Series Routers Tools: Cisco IOS, WireShark Implementation of IP routing protocols such as RIPv2, OSPFv2, EIGRP, BGPv4, and Mutual Redistribution on network topologies designed using Cisco routers in the laboratory. Also, captured the network packets of different protocols for analysis and troubleshooting.

File Sharing System Tools: Socket Programming, Java RMI, Java Threads, Java I/O, Eclipse Designed and implemented a distributed file sharing system that provided the functionalities of uploading a file, downloading a file, resuming the upload/download of a file from a point of failure in the system, and file discovery/download services using Remote Method Invocation. The server was multi-threaded that allowed for concurrent communication between multiple clients and servers.

Masters Scholarly Paper Title: OpenFlow Protocol-based Software-Defined Networking A research based paper on the SDN architecture – its advantages as compared to the layered networking architectures, the OpenFlow protocol, the OpenFlow Switch, Open SDN Contollers, and Network Virtualization using SDN.

Mutual Funds Website (Senior Year Project) Tools: ASP.Net with C#, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server Designed and implemented a mutual funds website that would act as a guide to the investors. The website provided the details about a mutual fund, its graphical performance, and graphical/textual comparison of two competitive mutual funds.